CLUBBED THUMB'S DEEP BLUE SOUND
February 25 - March 29, 2025
The Public Theater Welcomes
Clubbed Thumb's
DEEP BLUE SOUND
By Abe Koogler
Directed by Arin Arbus
After this spring's sold-out run of GRIEF HOTEL, the beloved downtown theater company Clubbed Thumb is back with their Obie Award-winning DEEP BLUE SOUND for a limited engagement.
On an island in the Pacific Northwest, the community gathers to address the disappearance of the local orca pod. Friendships fray, tumors grow, new love blooms, wood is chopped, poems are written. The seasons change. Will the whales ever return?
Written by Abe Koogler (Kill Floor, Staff Meal) and directed by Arin Arbus (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune), DEEP BLUE SOUND will once again feature Tony Award winner Maryann Plunkett, who won an Obie Award for "her transformative, fearless, empathetic turn" in this "devastatingly beautiful play" (2023 Obie Committee). The cast also features Crystal Finn, Jan Leslie Harding, Mia Katigbak, Armando Riesco and Danny Wolohan with further casting to be announced.
"I saw DEEP BLUE SOUND at Clubbed Thumb and as has often happened to me at Summerworks, I'm wrecked that something so perfect lasts for so short a time. I want this show to run forever (6 weeks?)...deep thanks, Abe Koogler, Arin Arbus, & a staggering cast.” - The New Yorker's Helen Shaw
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SAT 03/01 3:00 PM
SAT 03/01 7:30 PM
MON 03/03 7:30 PM
TUE 03/04 7:30 PM
WED 03/05 3:00 PM
WED 03/05 7:30 PM
THU 03/06
7:30 PM
Opening Night
SAT 03/08 7:30 PM
MON 03/10 7:30 PM
TUE 03/11 7:30 PM
WED 03/12 7:30 PM
THU 03/13 7:30 PM
FRI 03/14 7:30 PM
SAT 03/15
3:00 PM
Mask Required Performance
SAT 03/15 7:30 PM
TUE 03/18 7:30 PM
WED 03/19 3:00 PM
WED 03/19 7:30 PM
THU 03/20 7:30 PM
FRI 03/21 7:30 PM
SAT 03/22
3:00 PM
Open Caption
SAT 03/22 7:30 PM
MON 03/24 7:30 PM
TUE 03/25 7:30 PM
WED 03/26 7:30 PM
THU 03/27 7:30 PM
FRI 03/28 7:30 PM
SAT 03/29
3:00 PM
Audio Described
SAT 03/29 7:30 PM
Tickets
Tickets are $75*
Public Supporter and Partner tickets are $55
Public Preferred tickets are $105
*The listed ticket price includes a $10 per ticket service fee. When purchasing at the Taub Box Office, there is no service fee. Fee is waived for Public Theater Supporters & Partners tickets.
- Mask Required performance Saturday, March 15, 3:00PM
- Open Caption performance Saturday, March 22, 3:00PM
- Audio Description performance Saturday, March 29, 3:00PM
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Cast.
Crystal Finn
Mayor Annie
Crystal Finn (Mayor Annie) Also for Clubbed Thumb: Three iterations of Plano by Will Arbery, Usus, King Phillip’s Head…, 16 Words or Less, La Brea, Five Genocides. Other NY theater includes world premieres at Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, PlayCo, WP, Fulcrum, The Pool, 59E59, MTC. Crystal made her Broadway debut in Birthday Candles, by Noah Haidle, for which she won a Theatre World Award. TV/Film: “Babes,” “Kinda Pregnant,” “The Tick”. Her own play Find Me Here was produced with Clubbed Thumb last summer for Summerworks and was directed by Caitlin Sullivan. Other plays include her solo show, Becoming Liv Ullmann, The Faire, and Ms. Lily, which was developed with Clubbed Thumb for their Directing Fellowship. Recently, Crystal made her debut as a storyteller performing at “The Moth MainStage” at Sony Hall, and at the McCarter Theater in Princeton.
Jan Leslie Harding
Les
Jan Leslie Harding (Les) was last seen Off-Broadway in the Deep Blue Sound at Clubbed Thumb and at The Kennedy Center (DC) in Wilderness with En Guard Arts, with whom she also participated in Reza Abdoh’s groundbreaking site-specific play Father was a Peculiar Man set in the Meatpacking District of NY, Wellman’s Strange Feet at the Smithsonian in DC and Crowbar at the New Victory. Jan Leslie is known for her collaborations with many masters of the Avant-Garde, most notably with Theodora Skipitarus and The Talking Band at La Mama, Richard Foreman at BAM, the Ontological Hysteric, and the Montreal Theatre Festival, and in many productions with Mac Wellman all over the country and abroad. She received an OBIE for her work in Wellman’s Sincerity Forever (BACA Downtown). Jan Leslie has participated in The Helsinki International Theatre Festival, the Whitney Biennial, is a longstanding member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and a founding member of the Flea.
Mia Katigbak
Joy Mead
Mia Katigbak (Joy Mead) NY: Uncle Vanya (Lincoln Center); The Headlands (LCT3); Annie Baker’s Infinite Life (Atlantic/National Theatre, London); Romeo and Juliet, Out of Time, Caryl Churchill’s What If If Only (US premiere), Henry VI (St. Clair Bayfield Award), Awake and Sing! (Obie Award) all with NAATCO (National Asian American Theatre Company); A Delicate Balance (Transport Group); Ivo van Hove’s Scenes from a Marriage (NYTW); Clubbed Thumb; Public Theater; Soho Rep; New Georges; WP; Ma-Yi; Target Margin. Regional: Two River Theater, Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Berkeley Rep, The Guthrie. TV: “How to Get Away With Murder,” “The Sinner,” “Chicago PD.” Awards: The Joan and Joseph F. Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity at Lincoln Center Theatre, USA Fellowship, TCG’s Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellow for Distinguished Achievement, Special Drama Desk Award. Actor-Manager/Co-Founder of NAATCO. Education: BA, Barnard College; MA, Columbia University.
Maryann Plunkett
Ella
Maryann Plunkett (Ella) is a Tony, Obie, & Drama Desk Award-winning actress and, this year, she and her husband Jay O. Sanders were jointly awarded a “Special Citation for Lifetime Achievement” by the NY Drama Critics Circle. She has toured Europe, China, and Australia with Richard Nelson’s trilogy The Gabriel Family Plays which first premiered at NY’s Public Theatre and was televised on PBS. Prior to that, she spent five years with Nelson’s tetralogy The Apple Family Plays also at the Public, on tour, and televised on PBS, as well as the most recent of Richard Nelson’s Rhinebeck Panorama The Michaels. She is currently starring in the Broadway production of the new musical The Notebook for which she received a 2024 Tony Award nomination for “Best Actress in a Musical.” Other Broadway credits include Agnes of God, Sunday in the Park with George, Me and My Girl (Tony Award), The Crucible, St. Joan, A Man for All Seasons. Off-B’way: Juno & the Paycock and Plough in the Stars (Irish Rep O’Casey Festival), The Lucky Ones (Lortel Award nominee), Aristocrats, Rodney’s Wife, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Shaw, Theater of War. TV/film: ”New Amsterdam,” “Dr Death,” ”Manifest,” “Chicago Med,” “Bull,” “House of Cards,” “The Knick,” “Om City.” FILM credits: Fairhaven, The Family Fang, MAD, Youth in Oregon, Blue Valentine, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood opposite Tom Hanks, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, and Showing Up winner of a 2024 Spirit Award for “Best Ensemble.” Maryann is a proud member of SAG/Aftra & Actor’s Equity Association.
Armando Riesco
Chris
Armando Riesco (Chris) played the title character in the Elliot Trilogy, which includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning Water by the Spoonful (Lucille Lortel nomination - outstanding lead actor in a play). He has worked at 2nd Stage, Goodman Theater, Steppenwolf Theater, Hartford Stage, Victory Gardens, Wilma Theater, and others. IG @armandoriesco
Danny Wolohan
Gary
Danny Wolohan (Gary) Broadway: Camelot, Macbeth, West Side Story, To Kill a Mockingbird. Off-Broadway: The Welkin, The Low Road, Assassins, An Octoroon, The Flick, Pocatello. Regional: What the Constitution Means to Me, Court Life, Gnit. LCT3: Verité. TV: "The Gilded Age", “When They See Us,” “The Blacklist,” “Orange is the New Black,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Elementary,” and “Veep.” Film: White Noise.